Heinrich Lutter (13 August 1858 – 11 October 1937) was a German

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

and piano educator.''Lutter, Heinrich''
in the

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''Niedersächsische Personen'' (Neueingabe erforderlich) of the

Life

Lutter was born in the residence of the

Kingdom of Hanover The Kingdom of Hanover () was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Hanover, and j ...

as the son of a music teacher.

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: ''Lutter, Heinrich.'' In

Dirk Böttcher Dirk Böttcher (13 October 1921 – 23 January 2011) was a German printer master, author and president of the association of Friends of the Historisches Museum Hannover. Life Böttcher was born in Hanover. He passed his Abitur at the and was ...

Klaus Mlynek Klaus Mlynek (born 16 January 1936) is a German historian and scientific archivist, a former director of the City of Hanover Archive, and one of the editors and authors of the ' an encyclopedia of Hanover. Life Born in Poznań, Poland, Mlyne ...

Waldemar R. Röhrbein Waldemar R. Röhrbein (9 September 19355 October 2014) was a German historian. He worked as a museum director in Lower Saxony, his last post being from 1976 to 1997 at the Historisches Museum Hannover, and was president of the . He contributed to ...

: ''. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart.'' Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, , . After the

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, Lutter studied

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from 1876 to 1886 with

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...

in Weimar and Budapest, and – also in

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–

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with

Robert Volkmann Friedrich Robert Volkmann (6 April 1815 – 30 October 1883) was a German composer. Life Robert Volkmann was born in Lommatzsch near Meißen in the Kingdom of Saxony. His father, a music director for a church, trained him in music to prepare him ...

, and finally, again in Hannover, piano with

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. The content of a letter from von Bülow to Lutter in Hanover, dated 18 November 1877 from Glasgow has survived. Lutter quickly made a name for himself in his home town as a piano teacher, where in 1887 he initiated the "Lutter Concerts" which he then directed. In the highly acclaimed

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concerts, played "the best singers, violinists, violoncellists and pianists". In 1888 Lutter joined the . During the respective season in

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, Lutter performed as a pianist from 1891 until the beginning of World War I and also gave piano lessons. Lutter often accompanied

Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian Violin, violinist, Conducting, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely ...

on concert tours from 1897 to 1906. In 1908, Lutter was appointed professor. The royal professor and court pianist lived at least temporarily in ''Ferdinandstraße 21''. In 1910, Lutter established the ''Verein Celler Musikfreunde''in

Celle Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle (district), Celle in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller (Germany), Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about ...

in cooperation with the musician

Theodor Krüger Theodor Krüger (13 January 1891Harald Müller (text), Ulrich Loeper (images): ''Biographisch-bibliographisches Lexikon Celler Musiker. Komponisten, Sänger, Instrumentalmusiker, Musikpädagogen, Musikwissenschaftler, Instrumentenbau'' – 28 Dec ...

. Lutter died in 1937 in Hanover at the age of 79.

Honours

The Grand Duke of

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honoured Lutter with the award of the ''Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft''.

Students

* Fritz Berend (1889–1955), German composer, conductor and

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. *

Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (9 May 1904 in Hannover – 9 December 1985 in Berlin) was a German composer. The son of a chemical manufacturer, Schwarz-Schilling embarked upon his musical studies in 1922, first in Munich and – interrupted by sev ...

(1904–1985), German composer. * Gisela Sott (1911–2002)

Literature

* Erich Hermann Müller von Asow (ed.): ''Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon.'' W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929, Spalte 872. * Carl von Lachmund, Alan Walker: ''Living with Liszt. From the Diary of Carl Lachmund, an American Pupil of Liszt. 1882–1884''.''Living with Liszt. From the Diary of Carl Lachmund, an American Pupil of Liszt. 1882–1884''
on WorldCat (in English: ''Franz Liszt Studies Series'', Vol. 4), revised edition, edited, annotated and introduced by Alan Walker. Pendragon Press, New York 1998, ; passim
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